This week saw the start of at least 2 years of a dichotomy between the political power base of the White House and Congress.

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The Marcos clan is rebuilding its political and business power base too.

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The strategy was to get the communist leadership to talk peace, while the government's reform programmes destroyed their power base, slowly transforming a political problem into a residual problem of crime.

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